By David Crystal

New from Cambridge University Press!

By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

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Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language andliteracy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphopgeneration. Richardson analyzes the lyrics and discourse of Hiphop,explodes myths and stereotypes about Black culture and language and showshow Hiphop language is a global ambassador of the English language andAmerican culture.

Richardson examines African American Hiphop in secondary oral contexts suchas rap music, song lyrics, electronic and digital media, oral performancesand cinema and brings together issues and concepts that are explored in thedisciplines of folklore, ethnomusicology, sociolinguistics, discoursestudies and New Literacies Studies.